Katy Parrish

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title: "Katy Parrish" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["paralympic-athletes-for-australia", "living-people", "1991-births", "athletes-(track-and-field)-at-the-2012-summer-paralympics", "australian-women-sprinters", "australian-women-long-jumpers", "victorian-institute-of-sport-alumni", "21st-century-australian-sportswomen", "athletes-from-adelaide", "sportswomen-from-south-australia"] description: "Australian Paralympic athlete" topic_path: "geography/australia" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katy_Parrish" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Australian Paralympic athlete ::

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name	Katy Parrish
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sport	Athletics
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| headercolor = yellow | name = Katy Parrish | image = 180411 - Katy Parrish - 3b - 2012 Team processing.jpg | image_size = | caption = 2012 Australian Paralympic team portrait of Parrish | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = Australian | residence = | birth_date =
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| website = | country = Australia | sport = Athletics | event = | collegeteam = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = | paralympics = | highestranking = | pb = |medaltemplates= Kathryn 'Katy' Parrish (born 4 July 1991) is an Australian athletics competitor. She was selected to represent at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games 2008 Summer Paralympics and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics in the 4 × 100 metre relay, 100 metres, 200 metres and long jump events.

Personal

Parrish was born on 4 July 1991 Parrish represented Australia at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games and the 2012 London Paralympic Games She has three older brothers. While in school, she did a number of sports including netball, water polo, touch football and knee boarding.

Athletics

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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/070912_-Katy_Parrish-3b-_2012_Summer_Paralympics.JPG" caption="Parrish at the 2012 London Paralympics"] ::

Parrish is a T38 classified athletics competitor who specialises in the 100 metres, 200 metres and the long jump. and trains with Tim Matthews in Melbourne, Victoria.

Parrish started competing in 2006, following an Adelaide-based Australian Paralympic talent search event. making the finals in the 100 metre and 200 metre events. At the 2011 Arafura Games, she finished second in the Women Long Jump Ambulant event with a distance of 3.98 metres, and earned two gold medals. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics in the 4 × 100 metre relay, 100 metres, 200 metres and long jump events.

References

References

1. "My Voice: Paralympic Athlete Katy Parrish". Melbourne Weekly.
2. (2008-07-29). "AIS Athletes at the Beijing Paralympic Games". Australian Sports Commission.
3. Andrew McGarry. (9 September 2008). "Francis bolts clear to 200m glory". ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
4. McGarry, Andrew. (2008-09-13). "Last dip effort wins Smith bronze - 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games". ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
5. (12 May 2011). "ARAFURA GAMES RESULTS". Northern Territory News.
6. (2012). "Katy Parrish | APC Corporate". Australian Paralympic Committee.
7. (7 June 2012). "Walters sprints for London — Teenager set for Paralympics debut". Canberra Times.
8. (November 2018). "The Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) announced the athletics team for the London 2012 Paralympic Games at the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre today, during the team's final training camp on home soil before the Games begin on 29 August". 2XU.

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